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Works of Major Writers of the Charleston
Literary Renaissance, 1920-1933

Compiled by Marjorie Peale

John Bennett

Master Skylark, 1924
Barnaby Lee 1902, 1932
The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard, 1906
Madame Margot, 1921
Apothecary's Hall, 1923
The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo (prose and poetry), 1928
The Doctor to the Dead, 1943

Beatrice Ravenel

The Arrow of Lightning (poetry), 1926

Herbert Ravenel Sass

Way of the Wild, 1925
Adventures in Green Places, 1926
Gray Eagle, 1927
War Drums, 1928
On the Wings of a Bird, 1929
Look Back to Glory, 1933
Fort Sumter (with DuBose Heyward), 1938
Hear Me, My Chiefs!, 1940
Emperor Brims, 1941

Hervey Allen

Carolina Chansons (poetry with DuBose Heyward), 1922
Toward the Flame: A War Diary, 1926
Israfel, the Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, 1927
Poe's Brother, the Poems of William Henry Leonard Poe (poetry), 1927
Anthony Adverse, 1933
Action at Aquila, 1938
It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War, 1940
The Forest and the Fort, 1943
Bedford Village, 1944
Toward the Morning, 1948
The City in the Dawn, 1950

Josephine Pinckney

Sea-drinking Cities (poetry), 1927
Hilton Head, 1941
Three O'clock Dinner, 1945
Great Mischief, 1948
My Son and Foe, 1952
Splendid in Ashes, 1958

DuBose Heyward

Carolina Chansons (poetry with Hervey Allen), 1922
Skylines and Horizons (poetry), 1924
Porgy (novel), 1925
Angel, 1926
Porgy (play), 1927
The Half Pint Flask, 1929
Mamba's Daughters (novel), 1929
Jasbo Brown and other Poems (poetry), 1931
Brass Ankle, 1931
Peter Ashley, 1932
Lost Morning, 1936
Fort Sumter (with Herbert Ravenel Sass), 1938
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, 1939
Mamba's Daughters (play), 1939
The Star Spangled Virgin, 1939
Porgy and Bess (some lyrics for the folk opera), 1935